Touch screen =/= a second analog

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As a person who has been replaying Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days for the last week or so, I can say moving my thumb over to the touch screen from the face buttons wasn't that bad to quickly move the camera. I mean it's not like you have to take out the stylus every time you use the touchscreen.

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The back touchpad is still inferior to physical L2 and R2 shoulder buttons. Imagine how annoying it must be to make sure that you're fingers don't touch it while playing a game.

Rather easy considering the back panel has grooves for you to put your fingers on. Hands on reports have stated you get used to this in minutes.

Either way, while it doesn't perfectly solve the missing L2 and R2 button problem, the back touch pad provides you with extra button options while in games which require heavy right stick use. On top of that, every button is used in modern FPS games. In COD, X is jump, O is crouch or dive, triangle is to switch weapons and square is to interact. Nobody complained about this before since it's easy to swipe your thumb over and hit a button then move back. The only button you need to simultaneously press while moving the right stick is the fire button and possibly the grenade button, which can both be accomplished with R and the back touch pad respectively.

Ah, but portables are easier to take with you, and additional buttons hurts portability. GBA, I can fit in my pocket just fine. DS Lite, not horrible. PSP 3000...I'd better have big pockets that day. Same thing for the 3DS (mostly due to thickness). There's a tradeoff between functionality/comfort and size. Portables have to stay portable, or else there's little point to them. Sure, this means some control restrictions, but Peace Walker has shown that creative developers can work their way around such problems and still make a standout product.